Criton - Senior Software Engineer Mobile

Senior Software Engineer - Mobile

About Criton

It is an exciting time to work for Criton as we work towards delivering our new guest centric apps to hotels. These apps provide guests with information about the hotel and local attractions and aggregate traditionally isolated hotel technology to streamline the guest journey before, during and after the stay. As a business we’re aiming to massively influence the impact guest facing technology can have within the hospitality sector, across the globe.

We are always keen to hear from capable, creative individuals who want to help us accomplish that goal. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Chief Technology Officer to oversee our Product Delivery team who are building the next generation of our mobile apps. You will work closely with the entire delivery team and across the wider business to create the best possible solution for our customers and end-users.

Work Environment

Our come from a variety of diverse backgrounds. We have several non-graduates; only some of us studied Computer Science; some of the team are graduates of Codeclan; some of us have worked in huge companies and some have only ever worked in start-ups. If you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you. We encourage an open and transparent working environment. We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams.

We do our best to offer flexible working and hours to help you meet other commitments and ensure you strike a great work-life balance. We’re continually hiring great people for our Product Delivery team!

Role & Responsibilities

Criton works in project-based sprints in small, cross platform squads. We’re still a relatively small company, with around 14 people in the engineering team (out of 25 people in total) - but we have big ambitions: aiming to shape how technology is used within the hospitality sector, across the globe. There are many interesting challenges ahead. As a Senior Software Engineer here you will work closely with our Product Owners and all members of the delivery team to create the best possible solution for our customers and end-users. We run regular sessions with all the teams, presentations and demos to ensure everyone is well informed. You’ll get the chance to learn about everything from how hotels work to effective communication.

You will get to work with a lot of exciting modern technology and your role will involve:

Applying your knowledge of native mobile development to help design and create beautiful, reliable mobile experiences

Implementing user stories and agreed features through clean, maintainable code

Writing unit tests for every piece of code produced

Participating in refinement of user stories and definition of acceptance criteria

Participating in estimation, prioritisation, and planning of tasks from the product backlog

Participating in all Scrum ceremonies.

What we are looking for

Experience developing native applications in a similar senior role using Objective-C, Swift or Java

Commercial experience with cross platform mobile technologies such as Xamarin or Flutter

Ability to work collaboratively with the rest of the product development team to discuss and define requirements

Version control - Git, Bitbucket or Github

Proactive and versatile

Willingness to take ownership and be accountable for one’s work

Ability and willingness to continuously keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and rapidly learn new technologies

Aspire to engineering excellence – be able to write scalable, maintainable, efficient, and beautiful code

Interested in working with us?

You should apply if:

The work we’re doing sounds exciting!

You want to be involved in building a product that you (and everyone you know) will use every day on holidays at home and abroad

You like your ideas being listened to, taken on board and implemented into the projects

You’re keen to learn more about modern technologies and the inner workings of the travel-tech sector

You’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity

You Strive for engineering excellence and best practice

Cross-browser testing and UI testing.

Currently, the product delivery team are focused on a huge project for one of London’s most famous landmarks, now becoming a hotel. In the pipeline they will be working on creating an exciting new product that aims to be the go-to hotel and destination app for business travellers.

Logistics & Process

We are based in Codebase, Edinburgh’s best-known tech incubator and offer a relaxed and trusting culture in collaborative working environment. We offer competitive salaries based on skills and experience, with some additional benefits. Salary on offer is up to £50,000 depending upon experience.

Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen, a coding assignment, an interview with the Head of Engineering and a final stage with our CEO, Julie (face to face or via hangout). We can’t promise not to ask you any brain teasers but we won’t ask you anything too difficult.

Any questions?

If you’re unsure about applying or have any questions about the role or team, please don’t hesitate to email ron.crawford@criton.com . Also we promise to do our best to speed up the process for you and everyone gets honest feedback both positive and constructive, after the interview process.